Show/Hide Database entry

Hello,

I am trying to create a small post forum that via a database, the asp code displays a topic, author, and date submitted. on clicking the post, the messages of the user appears.
I tried to write a javascript function to perform the show/hide feature. I can make it work with only text

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<p class="posthidden" id="showhide">msg: some text</p>

but not with the database field

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<p class="posthidden" id="showhide">msg: <% 'response.write(rs("comments")) %></p>

I added two bitmaps that show what I am trying to do, any help would be appreciated

Below is my code:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<title>Update Entry Select</title>

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
 
<script type="text/javascript">

function expandcollapse (postid) {

whichpost = document.getElementById(postid);

if (whichpost.className=="postshown") { whichpost.className="posthidden"; }

else { whichpost.className="postshown"; }

}

</script>

<style type="text/css">

.posthidden {display:none}

.postshown {display:inline}

</style>

</head>
 
<body dir="rtl">

<%

'Dimension variables

Dim adoCon 'Holds the Database Connection Object

Dim rs 'Holds the recordset for the records in the database

Dim strSQL 'Holds the SQL query for the database
 
'Create an ADO connection odject

Set adoCon = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
 
'Set an active connection to the Connection object using a DSN-less connection

adoCon.Open "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=" & Server.MapPath("forum.mdb")
 
'Set an active connection to the Connection object using DSN connection

'adoCon.Open "DSN=forum"
 
'Create an ADO recordset object

Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
 
'Initialise the strSQL variable with an SQL statement to query the database

strSQL = "SELECT * FROM FORUM_MESSAGES;"
 
'Open the recordset with the SQL query

rs.Open strSQL, adoCon
 
%>

<table>

   <tr>

     <td>

     <p style="width: 330px">Topic</p>

     </td>

     <td>

     <p style="width: 274px">Author</p>

     </td>

     <td style="width: 271px">

     <p>Date</p>

     </td>

   </tr>

   <%

   'Loop through the recordset

Do While not rs.EOF

%>

   <tr>

     <td>

       <a href="javascript:expandcollapse('showhide')"><% response.write(rs("Topic")) %></a>

       <p class="posthidden" id="showhide">msg: <% 'response.write(rs("comments")) %></p>

      </td>

      <td>

       <% response.write(rs("AuthorName")) %>

      </td>

      <td style="width: 271px">

       <% response.write(rs("LastThreadPost")) %>

      </td>

    </tr>
 
<%

'Move to the next record in the recordset

rs.MoveNext

Loop

%>

</table>

</body>

</html>

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